Studies and Research on Obtaining Glass Inlays in Metal

Abstract

The paper presents research on obtaining glass inlays in metal, with the aim of obtaining a decorative object, using the intarsia technique. For this purpose, we studied the samples that we made from glass shards of different sizes, over which different metal oxides were added to colour the glass. The samples were made with different amounts of metal oxide, respectively 4%, 7%, and 10% to obtain different shades of colour. We also conducted experimental research to achieve the embedding of some pieces of glass in a defined metallic contour. The decorative object was made through the thermoforming process, with the glass intarsia in metal, in a stainless-steel plate, used as a background.